What a bloody EE-Jit! Please read and respond!
Aug 31, 2025
Please, please tell me, am I a raving idiot, mentally challenged, intellectually challenged, or just plain stupid?
I have literally thousands of images that I have taken over a 60-year career as a painter. I always take a photo of major passages as I am working my way through an oil painting. I have done this so thatI have a record of these passages that I have really and truly wanted to pass on to you. This may sound like terribly egocentric work, but it's quite honestly not; it is a window into my process and a window into who I am personally, and I thought that those of you who enjoy my work might also enjoy seeing the process of how each painting is created and what a massive amount of work and dedication to being a self-starter it is to be a working artist!
This time-consuming task that I have done not just for myself but for all of you that might have an interest in art and how fine art is actually created by those of us spending many, many, many lonely hours in studios around the country making our art. As, I have said previously, that may be egocentric because we feel that maybe someone, bloody well anyone!!! might be even remotely interested in what it takes to create what is considered, at least by some… to be fine art.
Well, my friends, your old bag artist friend has hit a bit of a snag in the process…. A bit of a snag may be the understatement of the century; however, it is still a snag. I fortunately have a very brilliant friend; in fact, he's a genius… at least he is in my eyes, he is, although it appears that this brilliant and decent in every way fellow, resists this account of what I feel deeply about him, namely because of his naturally humble nature.
This good friend has been trying to walk me through the process of creating videos that show you the different transitions of major passages in all of the paintings that I create and so as not to bore you out of your skull, to add something as simple as background music. God bless him and his patience, but I must say that it appears that he feels I am far more intelligent than I actually am because so far, I haven't figured it out.
I can be a bloody id-jet as they say in Ireland…in spades!!! But because I truly care about all of you and your opinion and I do want to communicate from my lonely studio, so that I retain at least a modicum of social graces And some tiny bit of ability to communicate with human beings in general I am terribly disappointed at my lack of expertise, intelligence, and ability to learn something quite as simple as making a little video with a bit of music in the background for all of you!
There is always an ah ha moment when you finally understand that you are nowhere near as intelligent as you previously thought you were that's exactly what's happening to me now! Embarrassing? Good lord speaking of the understatement of the century it is truly deeply and profoundly embarrassing that i am not getting the most Simple ability to create these videos for you that are frigging five year old could do these days!
If any of you have an idea or would like to take on this challenge for me Or assist me in this challenge I would so deeply and profoundly and totally amazingly appreciate it to the point that I have no words!!! I am a dunce, I am a total technical EE-JIT!!!! Any teenager would be absolutely shocked at my inability given that I have all of the imagery I have all of the information and I have all of the necessary components to create these videos so if any of you are able to do this and help me I would be greatly appreciative before I wind up putting a freaking gun to my head (only joking) whilst I am trying to find a reprieve from my technical and I do mean deeply a reprieve from my absolute inability to do anything even sensible with social media!!!
I am an old woman I am Nearing 8 decades can you bloody well imagine that I gotta tell you that I have a really difficult time understanding that however try as I may I am not able to accomplish my goals because I desperately want to show you how this art is created and all I need is somebody to show me or do it for me because I am an old bag present the passages of each painting. I have created all of these images, taking the time to shoot every major passage over so many decades and all I want to do is to show you how this art is created so if you have any kindness in you any technical ability or any desire would you be kind enough to help me before I go stark raving frigging mad trying to do it myself!!!!!
With great affection for all of you,
I am your friend and an artist who gives a S*&T,
Julia O’Malley-Keyes
O’Malley-Keyes Fine Art
143 Maravista Avenue
Teaticket, MA
Capecodartgallery.com
774.521.8731
omalleykeyesj@gmail.com